softening process

基本解释

Lime softening process is often applied in removing hardness and phosphates.
石灰软化工艺通常用来去除硬度和磷酸盐。
The economy of membrane softening process and its cost comparing with conventional lime softening are also discussed in this paper.
对膜软化过程的经济性进行了评述，并将膜软化的制水成本与常规软化法进行了比较。
Whether and how the humanistic operation embodied in traditional libraries conformed to this great leap forward needs debugging, which is a softening process.
但传统图书馆所体现的“人文操作”能否适应这种跨越，又如何适应这种跨越，需要一个缓和的过程，需要进行有效的调试。

It is part of the softening-up process that intensifies whenever China is seeking fresh yen loans from the Japanese government.
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